Thepassionatelyargued,incendiaryFrenchfeministworkthatfirstdefined“eco-feminism“--nowavailableforthefirsttimeinEnglishOriginallypublishedinFrenchin1974,radicalfeministFrancoised’Eaubonnesurveyedwomen’sstatusaroundtheglobeandarguedthatthestakesoffeministstrugglewasnotaboutequalitybutaboutlifeanddeath--forhumansandtheplanet.Inthiswide-rangingmanifesto,d’Eaubonnefirstproposedapoliticsofecofeminism,theideathatthepatriarchalsystem’sclaimoverwomen’sbodiesandthenaturalworlddestroysboth,andthatfeminismandenvironmentalismmustbringaboutanew“mutation“--anoverthrowofnotjustmalepowerbutthesystemofpoweritself.Asd’Eaubonneprophesied,“theplanetplacedinthefemininewillflourishforall.“NeverbeforepublishedinEnglish,andtranslatedherebyFrenchfeministscholarRuthHottell,thiseditionincludesanintroductionfromscholarsofecologyandfeminismsituatingd’Eaubonne’sworkwithincurrentfeministtheory,environmentaljusticeorganizing,andanticolonialfeminism.
